Flickr user I am Triet combined a gorgeous tilt-shift photo of a rainy street in Shinjuku with a few simple Windows tweaks to create a desktop that's clean, elegant, and still open enough that you can get plenty of work done without having to move windows around to see information on the desktop.

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If you want to get the same look with your Windows 7 desktop, here's what you'll need:

RocketDock for the application dock at the bottom of the screen (I am Triet doesn't remember which icon pack he used, but reader hybridr6 found it! It's called Icon Pack 2 and it's available at DeviantArt. Thanks!)

This setup is pretty simple, and the Rainmeter widgets all sit together neatly in one part of the desktop. Still, if you need a little help with the setup, we have an excellent tutorial on setting up Rainmeter that can help.

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If you have a Mac or are running Linux, you can approximate some of the same effects using GeekTool or Conky, respectively.

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Do you have a great, beautifully productive desktop of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it to the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr Group with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured desktop.